The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06


amendment to limit the duration of the
crimes bill to three years.
THERE is an epidemic of measles at Point
St. Charles Montreal. AT least five hun
bred cases have been reported.
Don CAMERON celebrated the Fourth of
July by entertaining 800 poor children at
his place near Washington, ID. G.
WR1GHT's furniture store and Strawn's
opera-house at Jacksonville, ILL.,, were de-
stroyed by fire last week. Loss S125,000.
ONE fourth of the business portion of
EliZabethtown, KY, was burned June %.
Aggregate loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
PRESIDENT BARTLETT of Dartmouth Col
lege pronounces all reports of his intended
resignation totally destitute of foundation.
UNION and confederate veterans celebrated
the anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg
in Gettysburg over campfire on Saturday.
BISHOP JAMES A. SHORTER of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church died suddenly
of heart disease Friday in Wilberforce,
Ohio.
The Fourth of July casualties in the
cities outnumber those of previous years
| There were twenty-three fire alarms in
Boston.
AN express-train going from Berlin to
| Cologne was thrown from the track at Muel-
helm. Seventeen persons were more or less
| injured.
| N.
| died Friday, at the age of seventy-tive. He
was for many years the leader of the Maine
! democracy.
! Ex-GovERNoR ANsoN =. MORRILL, of
Maine died Monday, aged eighty-four. He
was very prominent in the Universalist de-
nomination.
A BIG new gas well has been opened near
Fort Scott, Kansas. At Paoli there was a
great celebration of discovery of natural
! gas in Kansas.
The forthcoming marriage of the EN-
! peror of China is officially announced. His
wife has been selected. The festivities will
cost 81 100000.
SIX men were crushed to death near Ports
mouth, Ohio, while eXcavating for founda-
tons of a railroad bridge. a steep bank
caved in upon them.
A WASHINGTON Sunday newspaper as
serts, " from the very best information
available" that Secretary Endicott offered
his resignation last week.
INFORMATION has just reached Vienna of
an accident to two tourists in Syrian Alps,
one being killed and the other severely in
| jured. They fell over precipice.
Mrs. MARIA HALPIN, the story of whose
relations with Mr.. Cleveland in Buffalo was
so widely published during the presidential
campaign of 1884, has been married.
THE report has been received at Wash
ington that the Mormons are holding con-
stitutonal convention in Salt Lake City for
the purpose of abolishing polygamy.
THOMAS FARRELL, aged sixty, a farmer at
| Housatonic, Mass, while sprinkling Paris
green upon potato plants inhaled poison,
and died after thirty hours suffering
THE knights of Labor have adopted a
| new constitution, in which the general eX-
ecutive board of the order is given full
power to settle all strikes and disputes.
o;f,I,+ Il
Edward Lassoude, aged twenty-five, We're
drowned in Cumberland Bay, Plattsburgh,
last week, by the capsizing of their boat.
IT is given out that there is no truth in the
report that the President has decided to
postpone his trip to st. Louis until after the
Grand Army encampment there in Sep
| TENDER.
ANOTHER fire broke out in the New York
| dry goods district, causing a loss OF about
| 100000. A number of small fires also oc-
Cured, many of which were traced to fire.
crackers.
The barn and carriage-houses belonging
to the Lake View House, Ausable Chasm,
with their contents, We're burned Sunday
No injury was done to the hotel or other
buildings.
The fiscal year ended June 80 showed the
reduction of the national debt during that
period to have been $lo9, 7O7 ,6463s, The
reduction made during the month just
passed was $40, S52, 72517.
A DISPATCH from Ell Paso, Texas, says
the report of b. Bird, telegraphed from St
Louis that himself and the members of an
opera troupe were imprisoned in Mexico is
utterly without foundation
IT is believed that Turkey was frightened
out of the treaty with England concerning
Egypt by Russian threats of invading Asia
Minor and taking Erzeroum and Frencl
threats of occupying Palestine.
MooDY's summer school for college stu
dents at Northfeld, Mass, has opened
-Four hundred delegates are present The
grounds and lake have been fitted up for 6
great variety of outdoor sports.
PASSENGERS on a Fitchburg horse-cai
Monday became panic-stricken because the
horses were apparently running away, ant
several leaped from the car. One was killeC
and several were seriously injured.
IT is now estimated that the losses from
the destruction of the city of Marshheld
Wis, will not be less than S3,WO,0OO, ant
they may be nearly S3,500,OO0 lively,
blocks were destroyed, and but one house
remains unscathed.
In conversation with Chicago banke
Mr.. Trenholm conveyed the impression
that the net loss of the Fidelity Bank, Gin
cinnati, now seemed to be about S3,OOO,OOO
that sum representing the present liabilities
while the assets apparently were nil.
DR. JAMES b. TAYLOR of the bureau o
contagious diseases reports that there is al
alarming increase of diphtheria in New
. York city, and especially in the tenemen
district The report for June shows tiv
hundred twenty-one cases and two hundre'
sixteen deaths.
THE twelfth annual four-mile straight
away race between the eight-oared crew
representing Yale and Harvard was rowe
July | over the Thames river course
Connecticut, and was won by Yale by five
and-a-half lengths. The official time {
Yale is 22;56; Harvard's, 23.10l.
HENRY G. BowEN's celebration of tn
Fourth at Woodstock, CT, was somewha
similar in character TO other gatherings d
= Rosiland Park, and included addresses b
Hon. John ID. Long, Rev. DR.. John Il, Pa'
y ton of Brooklyn, General Horace Porter, e>
Secretary Window Hon. Clark f. Carr an
, Others
Mrs EMMA MoLLoY, indicted as an acce
=, sorry after the fact to the murder of Sara
u Graham at Springfield, Mo-, filed motto
for a continuance until the next term, on til
" ground that she could not get justice at tn
term. The motion was overruled. I'll
y Jury in the Cora Lee case failed to agre
standing eight for conviction to four for a
,, quittal.
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